Currently we’re sitting at about 20,000 words, a decent count for just over a month’s work.
Category Archives: Writing
Why do we place intellectual importance on sadness?
My current romance project has me thinking, why did I lean so heavily into my stories of grief and loss? Of pain and trials? Certainly, it makes for a good story simply because of the conflict that comes of that, but it was something more. I was working under the assumption that a sad story is a good story.
Finally putting my writing up on my own freaking blog
It took two years, but here I am finally putting a piece of fiction up here. I often write a couple hundred words here or there – little snippets that don’t become anything – and I wanted to put them up here for the longest time.
Romanticising the Mundane
There’s a weird phrase going around the internet at the moment – ‘main character energy’ – or something like that. When you look into it, it’s basically a bunch of girls framing their somewhat ordinary lives as an urban romance.
Tapping into Inspiration
What it means to tap into your creativity as an artist and how other people get it wrong.
Trying to Type Grief
Why is writing emotions so difficult? What can we discover through doing it?
Are You a Writer?
What does it mean to be a writer? Why is it so hard to consider ourselves as writers?